The poultry industry has suffered the most, with almost 15 million birds dying or being culled to control the virus in Canada ...

A Canadian teenager has been hospitalized with bird flu, the first human case of H5N1 in the current outbreak detected in the country. A teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized with a ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild ...

Scientists say the H5N1 virus is increasingly effective at infecting wild birds, letting the virus spread more efficiently ...

The CFIA “confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)”, subtype H5N1, at a commercial poultry farm in ...

A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu, a British Columbia health official said Tuesday. It's not clear how the teenager picked up the virus, which ...

Human bird flu has hospitalized a Canadian teenager at British Columbia Children’s Hospital. He is the first person in Canada to test positive for the bird flu virus. The B.C. teen likely acquired the ...

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Scientists believe it was roughly a year ago that an influenza virus sickening and killing birds happened upon a new and surprisingly hospitable host in the Texas Panhandle — dairy cattle. That ...

NECESSARY. USDA’S ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE SPECIALIZES IN ELIMINATING AND REMOVING SICK OR DEAD WILD BIRDS. THEIR STAFF ARE TRAINED TO HANDLE THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH REMOVAL. JOSH ...

While officials have released few details about the patient, the teenager who had been previously healthy, began experiencing symptoms over a week ago, including eye redness, cough and fever. The teen ...